My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

I always find a couple of hecklers... I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.

I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.

I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.

I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].

I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.

In college you learn about college

If we win, I don't care if I get 20 boards or five boards.

If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.

I want to be in the best winning situation. I don't want to be around anybody who's just interested in playing out the season and then going home for the summer.

Encouragement is strength of the soul.

Some people feed you with love.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Nothing any good isn't hard.

Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me.

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.